Increase HDD partitions

[nchoirncpus]

Recently I purchased a Maxtor 40 gig harddrive (HDD). It replaced a 5.7 and 2.6 gig hdd (not very easily, I might add).

The Maxtor 5.7 gig drive was partitioned into 4 drives (plus the 2.6 gig made 5). So when I finally got things transferred over to the new drive, mostly all of the partitions were around 2 gig as they were originally.

But now (using Partition Magic 5.0), I can't created partitions larger than 1.99 gig. WHY? I haven't tried to fdisk the drive cause it may be detrimental to system. I need and use my system daily, sometimes all day, so I can't take a chance on losting anything.

Any suggestions would be appreciated, cause I really need to create larger partitions to make my life easier.

Thanx in advance for your advise.

 

[wolluf]

Don't know what PM 5 supports - but that sounds like FAT (rather than FAT32) partitions (max size 2GB). If you've still got original disks, you'd do much better fdisking & formatting new disk with partitions/drives of the sizes you want & then copying data (assuming win9x/ME - you haven't said anything about o/s or what's on various partitions - are originals primary or a primary & extended with drives?)

 

[y2k1981]

I'm no expert, but I agree with wolluf, maybe if you converted the partition to NTFS if you're using NT or 2000 or like wolluf suggested, convert to FAT32 if it's '98

 

[Rentvillas]

Or you can try upgrading to PM 7.0 i use that all the time when installing mulit-os's. its very easy and i create 10 gig partitions no problem.